Re[2]: [ga] Re: Board descisions

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Thomas,

Wednesday, March 14, 2001, 3:33:09 AM, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> On 2001-03-14 22:55:52 +1300, DPF wrote:

>> Registrants can invest a lot of money in their domain name and to
>> have it removed from them due to a policy change is not something
>> that should happen.  IMO once a Registrant has a domain name they
>> should be able to keep it for ever as long as they confirm to
>> normal rules (pay their fees, are not cybersquatting etc).

> Indeed.  After all, why should anyone worry about the stability of
> registry operators when the stability of existing domain names
> depends on today's mood on the ICANN board?

> More seriously, I just can't believe that anyone on the board, at
> Verisign, or in the DNSO can even think about policy changes which
> would have the effect to remove exiting domain names which were
> registered and are being used in good faith and according to the
> rules.

You don't go far enough.

I say that such a major change should NEVER occur, impacting current
or future registrants, after a gTLD has been in operation and use so
long as an unrestricted gTLD.

Chuck has said that this move of .org to a restricted TLD is not a
part of their talks with ICANN. I would be curious to know for certain
who exactly brought it up first.  Such a change would only benefit
Verisign under the new agreements.

There is no reasonable basis for making a change in policy like this
on a gTLD that has been in such wide use already.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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